Linotype-magazine rack.



T. H. KNAPP.

LINOTYPE MAGAZINE RACK.

APPLICATION IILBD APR.25,1913.

Patented Ja11.20, 1914.

THOMAS H. KNAPP, 0F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

LINOTYPE-MAGAZINE RACK.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Jain. 20, 19114.

Application filed April 25, 1913. Serial No. 763,523.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS H. KNArr, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Linotypewh/Iagazine Racks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is a linotype magazine rack.

As is well understood, printing offices equipped with linotype machines made by the Mergenthaler Linotype Company have to have different sets of matrices for dif ferent styles of type in which printed matter is to be set by the machine, and these matrices are carried and stored in what is technically called the magazine of the machine, the different sets of matrices each being carried in its own separate magazine. A magazine of this kind equipped with the proper matrices for use upon the machine weighs from sixty to eighty pounds and is not an easy thing to handle and store without a considerable waste of space, and if the magazine is dropped in handling the matrices are mixed up or pied, with consequent great inconvenience to all concerned, to say nothing of injury to the magazine itself, which is a more or less delicate structure designed to take an operative position in the linotype machine itself, which it cannot do if it is bent or otherwise injured.

The object of this invention is to provide a rack in which one or more magazines of this class may be placed and compactly stored, and any selected magazine readily moved to position for ready removal and transfer to the linotype machine.

The invention consists in a device capable of carrying out the foregoing objects, which can be easily and economically built, which is compact in form, and occupies little space, which is easilyand satisfactorily operated, and is not readily liable to get out of order.

The invention also consists in the particular features and details of construction hercafter fully set forth in the specification and claims.

Referring to the drawings, in which similar numerals indicate the same parts throughout the different views: Figure l is a perspective view of mechanism illustrating this invention in its preferred form.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged end view of the device.

Fig. 3 is a front view of the magazine on the same scale as Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a side detail view of the cross arm on which the magazine hangs.

In constructing the magazine rack a suitable case is provided containing, in the particular case here illustrated7 parallel openwork side frames 10 connected together by rods 12, 14, 16, 18 inclusive. As shown, this framework or case is open and is not inclosed but it may be made in the form of a solid walled cabinet without departing `from this invention.

Pivoted upon the rod or shaft 18 are a plurality of upright arms 20, each of which is provided at its top with a cross arm 22 pivoted at 24C. On the upright arm 20 adjacent to the cross arm 22 on the case side of the pivot 2-1 is a lug 26 adapted, when the cross arm 22 is in the position of Fig. 4, to engage a lug 28 on the underside of the cross arm 22. These parts are cast in the rough, and any failure of the parts to assume the position shown in Fig. 4e may be adjusted by grinding these two lugs 26 and 28 along their common contacting surfaces 30. It is in order to provide such a surface for grinding that the lug 28 is provided, as otherwise the lug 26 might abut directly against the arm 22.

Pivotally connected to the cross arm 22 at 32 is a rod 34 having its opposite end 3G pivotally connected to the rod or shaft 12. It will be noticed that rod 34 and the arm 2O only vary from being parallel to each other by a comparatively slight angle so that when the arm 20 is swung from full line position to the dotted line position of Fig. 2 the cross arm 22 will not in the intervening movement vary materially from the horizontal position which it assun'ies in both of said positions shown in Fig. 2, although it does, of course, have a slight rocking mo tion in making the trip from full line position to dotted line position and back again. The cross arm 22 is provided at its ends with outwardly extending lugs 40 on which the ends of a rod 42 on the back of the magazine 44 rest or hook so that each magazine 44; which is to be taken care of by the device of this invention may be supported on a cross arm 22.

The corresponding parts are all made of the same size so that different magazines may be interchangeably placed on any of the cross arms 22 of the device.

Any means of detachably suspending a magazine 44 upon the cross arm 22 may be used without departing from this invention.

In the use oil the invention one rack 'of this invention may be provided for each linotype machine in t-he oiiice or one may be used :tor a. plurality of machines, depending on the size and character of the printing oflice in question, and the rack is stocked with magazines 44 containing different styles of matrices, as shown in the gures, the magazines which are not in use being all moved to the position shown in full lines in Fig. 2. When now the operator desires to use upon his linotype machine the matrices which are in a given magazine he goes to the rack,

icks out the magazine which he desires, and taking hold of it moves that magazine and the arm 2O which supports it from the full line position to the dotted line position of Fig. 2, in which position the particular magazine is clear of the rack and the other magazines. He' then lifts his particular magazine off from its arm 22 and puts it in his linotype machine. When that particular magazine has been used as much as desired the operator takes it from the linotype machine and hooks it onto the arms 40 oi the cross arm 22 to which it belongs and then returns the whole magazine and support from the dotted line position to the full line position of Fig. 2.

There is, of course, nothing to prevent several different magazines in a magazine rack from being used in this way at the same time on different machines, and obviously any supporting arm 2O with its cross arm 22 which does not contain a magazine may be shoved into the rack just as though a magazine were upon it.

It will be noticed that when a given magazine is within the rack its supporting arm '2O lies against and is supported by the rod 12 and that when that particular magazine is moved to position outside the rack, z'. e., the dotted line position of Fig. 2, the arm 20 for that particular rack is supported by the fact that the rod 84 is connected to the cross arm 22 and that the lugs 26 and 28 engage each other and prevent further movement of the cross arm 22 in a counter clockwise direction, as viewed in Fig. 2.

lThe iigures show a rack equipped for live magazines. Racks for a greater or less number may be made by correspondingly increasing the number of parts and extending the line of the rods 12 to 18 without departing from this invention.

While this invention is intended primarily for linotype magazines it may obviouslyv be used for displaying other heavy objects without departing from the broad invention.

The claims are: Y

1. In a device of the class described, the combination of a rack comprising` two side frames 10 connected together by rods 12 and 18rand other suitable means, a plurality of arms 20 placed side by side and pivoted upon the rod 18, movable to and from rod 12, and in one position of movement supported by it, a cross arm 22 pivoted upon each arm 2O and normally approximately at right angles thereto, a rod 34 connecting each cross arm 22 and rod 12, and means preventing rotary movement of the cross arm 22 toward said rod 34, all of the parts being arranged and proportioned substantially as shown and described for the purposes set forth.

2. In a device of the class described, the combination of a suitable supporting rack within which magazines may be stored, a single arm pivoted near its bottom to said rack and movable toward and from it and when in the position nearest to the rack supported by it, means for suspending a linotype magazine upon the upper portion of said arm and means, including a rod of less length than the single .arm connecting the rack and the magazine suspending means, for maintaining said magazine suspending means in substantially level posi tion in all positions of said arm, and for limiting the movement of the arm away from the rack.

3. In a device of the class described, in combination with a supporting rack, a single arm pivoted to said supporting rack to move to and from it between two positions,

in one of which positions it is supported by Y the rack and in the other of which positions a linotype magazine carried by the arm is entirely clear of the rack, a cross arm for suspending such a linotype magazine pivoted upon said arm near its upper end, lugs on said cross arm and said single arm engaging each other in one position of the parts to prevent excessive rotation of the cross arm with reference to the single arm and an independent rod connecting the cross arm to the supporting rack adapted to limit the outward movement of the arm away from the support, the whole arranged to operate as set forth.

4. In a device of the class described, in combination with a supporting rack, a single arm pivoted to said supporting rack adapted to move to and from it between two different positions in oneV of which it is supported by the rack and in the other of which positions a linotype magazine carried by the arm is entirely clear ofthe rack, means for suspending such a linotype magazine pivoted upon said arm and means; including a rod of less length than said arm connecting the rack and magazine suspendrespectively upon the arm andthe magazine scribed my name in the presence of two suspending means; for mzuntammg the wltnesses,

magazine snspenelino means substantiall level in :111 positionse of said movement obi' THOMAS H KNAPP' 5 the arm and for limiting the movement of \Vit11esses:

the arm away from the rack. DWIGHT B. CHEEVER, In witness whereof, I have hereunto subl MARGARET D. Ro.

Copie of thin patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of `llatencn, Washington, D. C. 

